Monthly Commons digest
January 2025: the Commons month in review
Ayes and Noes · compiled from official UK Parliament data
Published 31 January 2025 2 min read
January 2025 opened the new year with 22 divisions across six sitting days, nine carried and thirteen rejected, and roughly 10,300 votes cast.
Education was the most frequently divided-on topic. Party discipline was tight: only five votes were recorded against a party majority all month.
22
Divisions
9
Passed
13
Rejected
10,284
Votes cast
Activity through the month
Recorded divisions per sitting day (hover a bar for the date).
Bars show sitting days on which the Commons divided; the axis numbers are divisions held.
Notable divisions
What was debated
Topics by number of divisions tagged (locally derived).
Rebellions
5 votes were cast against an MP's own party majority this month.
Largest rebellion, 2 MPs voted against their party majority
Women’s State Pension age (Ombudsman report and compensation scheme): Ten Minute Rule Motion
28 Jan 2025
Most active MPs
By recorded votes cast this month (a participation measure, not a judgement of effectiveness). Party shown as at the time.
Early Day Motions
138 new Early Day Motions were tabled this month.
Most signed, 98 signatures
Snares
EDM 705 · tabled by Ruth Jones